Problem: An Acer laptop is seemingly frozen but when you plug in an external USB keyboard and mouse the laptop works. It’s just the built-in touchpad and keyboard that don’t work or respond.

Fix: Remove the laptop’s battery.

THE METHOD:

Fix the the issue by turning off the laptop and removing the battery. Then turn on the laptop and you will see that the touchpad and keyboard are no longer frozen and now work.

How to explain this problem to the client: Good customer, it would appear that the battery you have is defective and needs to be replaced. It is causing a short in the system and is causing the keyboard and touchpad to not respond.